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Managing Environmental Risk through Insurance »

Authors: Paul K. Freeman
ISBN-13: 9780792399018, ISBN-10: 0792399013
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul K. Freeman

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Examines the potential of insurance as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy, and highlights how insurance and performance standards could influence management of environmental risk. Outlines the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk, describing the comparative advantages of insurance, then analyzes the insurability of risks and applies insurability analysis to three environmental examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
Pt. I	Managing Societal Risks
	Introduction: Overview of the Problem	3
1	Managing Risk through Government Benefit Programs	7
2	Managing Risk through the Legal System	11
3	Managing Risk through Insurance	21
Pt. II	Managing Environmental Risks
	Introduction: Insuring Enviromental Risks	33
4	The Insurability and Marketability of Risk	37
5	Insuring Asbestos Risk: Background and Identification of Risk	55
6	Insuring Asbestos Risk: Insurability and Marketability Conditions	63
7	Insuring Other Types of Environmental Risk	75
8	Summary and Conclusions	97
	Index	105

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